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    • Apr 2, 1940
    After a noisy courtroom drama that included Bob Wills shouting at his own attorney, the annulment of his marriage to Mary Lou Wills is set aside. She is less than four months from bearing him a daughter
    Apr 4, 1940
    Songwriter Sharon Sheeley is born in Los Angeles. Eddie Cochran's girlfriend at the time of his death in 1960, she writes Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool"
    Apr 4, 1940
    Ernest Tubb has his first Decca recording session, cutting "Blue Eyed Elaine" at Houston's Rice Hotel
    Apr 5, 1940
    Tommy Cash is born in Dyess, Arkansas, the younger brother of country superstar Johnny Cash. Tommy registers three Top 10 singles in 1970, including "Six White Horses," a tribute to John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King
    Apr 10, 1940
    Wayne Massey is born in Glendale, California. After appearing as Johnny Drummond on the soap opera "One Life To Live," he marries Charly McClain in 1984, netting a pair of hits when he records duets with her
    Apr 11, 1940
    The Sons Of The Pioneers sing their familiar "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" as the Charles Starrett movie "Blazing Six Shooters" opens
    Apr 12, 1940
    Roy Rogers portrays Bill Cody with the debut of "Young Buffalo Bill"
    Apr 12, 1940
    Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys record one of his best-known classics, "The Precious Jewel," in Saginaw, Texas
    Apr 14, 1940
    Lee "Lasses" White appears in the ghost-town movie "Grandpa Goes To Town"
    Apr 15, 1940
    Roy Rogers plays second fiddle to John Wayne in the debut of "Dark Command," a Civil War picture loaded with Stephen Foster songs
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